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Officials struggled Friday to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly shopping mall fire in Iraq, amid ongoing ...

A US-led coalition was formed in 2014 to combat ISIS and launched a sustained military campaign across Iraq and Syria. The ...

The US and UK Embassies in Baghdad have issued statements regarding recent drone attacks targeting the Kurdistan Region of ...

Before joining the State Department in 2002, he worked in the private sector on architectural and design projects in Asia ...

Asharq Al Awsat A restart of Iraq's Kurdish oil exports is not imminent, sources close to the matter said on Friday, despite ...

Iraq's oil sector is reeling after four consecutive days of mystery drone strikes targeted key fields in the Kurdistan region. On July 17, both Norwegian-operated oil fields were bombed. U.S.-operated ...

Despite recent announcements by Iraq's federal government, Kurdish oil exports are unlikely to resume soon. Negotiations ...

Tankers could soon be lifting Iraqi oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan once again as a key pipeline reopens. The government ...

Oil prices firmed yesterday despite USD recovery. Drone attacks on oil fields in Kurdistan provided further support; producers suspended operations, resulting in ~200k b/d lost production.

At least 61 people were killed and dozens more rescued after a fire tore through a shopping center in eastern Iraq on ...

A fire at a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq’s Wasit province killed more than 60 people, including women and children, ...